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to Information Services, Mennonite Bd. of Missions DEC 31 1979 memorandum
from John H. Yoder ASSOCIATED MENNONITE BIBLICAL SEMINARIES
3003 Benham Ave.
date December 27, 1979
subject
Elkhart, Indiana 46514
I was reading ECUNEWS, the South Africa bulletin, when I observed
that Harold Wenger is serving as general secretary of the Swazi Christian
Council.
It is a sign of my lay status and the limitations of our informational
network that I am not even clear whether Harold is working for MCC or one
of the Mission Boards: but in any case the fact that a Mennonite worker
is serving a local Christian council in this kind of position would seem to
me to be newsworthy. It should call for some kind of feature interpretation
and not merely a squib indicating he is in the office.
I read the papers that come to our house: if something has been made
of Harold's work in the past I am sorry to have missed it. If it has not,
then it is our information services that should be making more of this kind
of an assignment. Mennonites in general have been afraid both of independent
churches and of ecumenical organizations: now we have one of our good people
serving both at the same time. If there is not some journalist with
sufficient background here to write up what it means, perhaps Harold should,
be asked himself to draft an interpretation.
JHY/jk

to Information Services, Mennonite Bd. of Missions DEC 31 1979 memorandum
from John H. Yoder ASSOCIATED MENNONITE BIBLICAL SEMINARIES
3003 Benham Ave.
date December 27, 1979
subject
Elkhart, Indiana 46514
I was reading ECUNEWS, the South Africa bulletin, when I observed
that Harold Wenger is serving as general secretary of the Swazi Christian
Council.
It is a sign of my lay status and the limitations of our informational
network that I am not even clear whether Harold is working for MCC or one
of the Mission Boards: but in any case the fact that a Mennonite worker
is serving a local Christian council in this kind of position would seem to
me to be newsworthy. It should call for some kind of feature interpretation
and not merely a squib indicating he is in the office.
I read the papers that come to our house: if something has been made
of Harold's work in the past I am sorry to have missed it. If it has not,
then it is our information services that should be making more of this kind
of an assignment. Mennonites in general have been afraid both of independent
churches and of ecumenical organizations: now we have one of our good people
serving both at the same time. If there is not some journalist with
sufficient background here to write up what it means, perhaps Harold should,
be asked himself to draft an interpretation.
JHY/jk